Far North Queensland Events

UMI Arts Indigenous Markets (Event)
The Esplanade, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia

UMI Arts Indigenous Market is a celebration and exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, craft, performance, music, dance and food held on the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon from 4.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. on the last Friday of every month until September 2009. Bring your family and a blanket down to the Esplanade and make some new friends or catch up with some old ones over a picnic and ...

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Cooktown Art Festival (Event)
Charlotte Street, Throughout Cooktown, Cooktown, Queensland 4871, Australia

Come to Cooktown for this Art Festival. See for yourself the wonderful work of the local artists: painters, sculptors, wood carvers, potters, photographers; art in any medium, it will all be there! Be entertained by the talented local musicians and poets, including a poet's breakfast where you can join in. The exhibitions are located throughout Cooktown. The art will be on show at various g ...

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Reggaetown Festival (Event)
Kamerunga Road, Tjapukai Cultural Park, Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia

Reggaetown Festival is Australia's premier Roots reggae event set in Cairns tropical North Queensland. Families, backpackers and music lifestyle lovers should come and check out the best reggae and roots music event in Australia. Featuring famous and emerging artists from Africa, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Torres Straits and Australian bands as well as Disc Jockeys who set the ...

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The Quoll Adventuregaine (Multi - Stage Adventure) (Event)
To be advised, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia

The Quoll Adventuregaine is held in the Cairns Highlands - Far North Queensland, in the backyard of XPD 2010. This event will be great training for teams looking to enter the XPD. Teams can be of two or four persons. The 33 hour event starts 6.00 a.m. on Saturday, or the 15 hour event starts Midnight Saturday. Both events finish 3.00 p.m. Sunday. Multiple stages, self supported (no crew n ...

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Weipa Fest - You and Me, Land and Sea (Event)
Prunum Street, Weipa, Cape York Penisula, Queensland 4874, Australia

During the month of September a two day celebration of tradition, culture, nature, food, fun and arts will take place in the tropical beachside location of Weipa, called Weipa Fest - You and Me, Land and Sea. The festival will stage some of the most exotic and exciting dance groups through an historical expression of Indigenous performing and visual arts. Alongside non-stop performances will be a ...

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Wallaby Creek Festival (Event)
River Street, Rossville, Queensland 4895, Australia

Wallaby Creek Festival is a small, friendly event set in Tropical North Queensland's World Heritage Wet Tropics. The three day program offers music on two stages including some of Australia's well loved festival bands as well as showcasing artists from the surrounding towns and indigenous communities. Other planned activities include breakfast with the poets, workshops, street theatre, and a c ...

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AFL Masters National Carnival (Event)
Tills Street, Cazaly Stadium, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia

The AFL Masters National Carnival is conducted over eight days and is the major national event for players. First held in Melbourne in 1983, the Carnival has since been rotated annually around Australian major city locations and has steadily grown to become the largest Australian Rules Football Championship. The 2009 National Carnival will be held at Cazaly Stadium and other selected grounds ...

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Go Troppo Arts Festival (Event)
Wharf Street, Various Locations, Old Sugar Wharf, Port Douglas, Queensland 4877, Australia

Come and enjoy the Go Troppo Arts Festival in Port Douglas. Would you like to attend a half or full-day workshop in tropical glass making, textile dyeing with mangroves, oil painting in the savannah or developing your own myth whilst painting from a live model near a rainforest creek? What about the sensuous feel of clay between your fingers as you construct a life sized self-portrait sculpture or ...

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Cairns Classic (Event)
Paradise Palms Drive, Cairns, Queensland 4879, Australia

The Cairns Classic is a Professional Golfers Association Tour of Australasia Order of Merit event. See some of the stars of Australian golf take on the challenging Paradise Palms layout, as they compete for AUD110,000 in prizemoney. Previous winners of this event include current United States Professional Golfers Association Tour player Marc Leishman, four-time winner on the Australasian To ...

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Tastes of the Tableland (Event)
86 Herberton Road, Atherton, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland 4883, Australia

The Tastes of the Tableland Festival is a day of family fun showcasing world renowned delicacies grown and produced in the Tropical North Queensland highland region. Tap your toe to the sounds of local talent while you sample fine wines, premium coffees, cheeses, and chocolates then grab a table under the marquee and enjoy lunch from one of the exclusive festival menus prepared by local eater ...

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Crocodile Trophy (Event)
Cairns Esplanade to, Cape Tribulation, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia

Australia's best-known international mountain bike race, the Crocodile Trophy has established a reputation as the longest, hottest and hardest off-road cycling event on the planet. The race attracts a field of professionals and amateurs from all over the world, including legends of cycling, to test themselves against the demands that only the Outback of Tropical North Queensland can offer. ...

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Big Talk One Fire (Event)
Captain Cook Highway, Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia

UMI's annual Big Talk One Fire cultural summit will be held over two days in October, and its purposes are to provide a platform for sharing traditional cultural knowledge and language, to identify and share ways of creating pathways for success for young people and emerging artists, to promote and share the work and programs delivered by UMI Arts. UMI Arts Limited is the peak body for Aborigi ...

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Tropical Alternatives Film Festival (Event)
Various locations, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia

The Queensland Association for Healthy Communities Inc (QAHC) presents the Tropical Alternatives Film Festival - bringing LGBT-themed films to regional Queensland, giving the local LGBT communities and their friends the chance to see alternative cinema with stories that resonate with their own lives. Since 2007, the annual event has been growing rapidly. QAHC coordinates the festival in ...

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